Peanut Butter Wolf
My Vinyl Weighs A Ton Instrumentals

Listening notes

Peanut Butter Wolf's My Vinyl Weighs A Ton Instrumentals was released on Stones Throw Records in 1999 under catalog number STH 2017i. Issued on vinyl, the release presents the instrumental versions of tracks from the hip-hop album of the same name, spread across a double LP format with four sides.

The twelve tracks are distributed across the four sides in a configuration that gives each side a distinct running time. Side A opens with "In Your Area" at two minutes and twenty-five seconds and moves through "Hold Up," "Rock Unorthodox," and "Necromancin," the last of which clocks in at just over two minutes. Side B carries three tracks, with "Keep On Rockin It" running the longest of that side at four minutes and thirty-one seconds, followed by "Breaks Em Down" and "Phonies." Side C is anchored by "Tale Of Five Cities," an eight-minute-and-fifty-second piece that accounts for the majority of that side's runtime, paired with "Mobbin." Side D closes the record with "Competition Gets None," "Interruptions," and "DJ Hands Theme."

The release was catalogued under the genres of hip-hop and instrumental, which accurately describes its function as a stripped-back presentation of produced tracks without vocal performances. Stones Throw Records, the Los Angeles-based label that released this record, was also the home of the vocal version of My Vinyl Weighs A Ton. The instrumentals edition carries the same catalog number as the vocal version with the addition of the suffix "i," a straightforward labeling convention distinguishing the two releases.

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